Download or read book Health Care Associated Infections in Hospitals Leadership Needed from HHS to Prioritize Prevention Practices and Improve Data on These Infections written by Cynthia A. Bascetta and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), health-care-associated infections (HAI) -- infections that patients acquire while receiving treatment for other conditions -- are estimated to be 1 of the top 10 causes of death in the nation. This statement summarizes a report by the same title released on this date, which examined: (1) CDC¿s guidelines for hospitals to reduce or prevent HAI's and what HHS does to promote their implementation; (2) Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services¿ (CMS) and hospital accrediting organizations¿ required standards for hospitals to reduce or prevent HAI's; and (3) HHS programs that collect data related to HAI's and integration of the data across HHS. Includes recommendations. Charts and tables.
Download or read book Health Care Associated Infections in Hospitals written by Marjorie Kanof and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the CDC, health-care-associated infections (HAI) -- infections that patients acquire while receiving treatment for other conditions -- are estimated to be one of the top 10 causes of death in the nation. This statement summarizes a March 2008 report by the same name on these Infections. This report examined: (1) CDC's guidelines for hospitals to reduce or prevent HAIs and what HHS does to promote their implementation; (2) Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' and hospital accrediting organizations' required standards for hospitals to reduce or prevent HAIs; and (3) HHS programs that collect data related to HAIs and integration of the data across HHS. Charts and tables.
Download or read book Health Care Associated Infections in Hospitals written by Cynthia A. Bascetta and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the CDC, health-care-associated infections (HAI) are estimated to be 1 of the top 10 causes of death in the U.S. HAI¿s are infections that patients acquire while receiving treatment for other conditions. The author examined: (1) CDC¿s guidelines for hospitals to reduce or prevent HAI¿s and what the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) does to promote their implementation; (2) Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services¿ (CMS) and hospital accrediting organizations¿ required standards for hospitals to reduce or prevent HAI¿s and how compliance is assessed; and (3) HHS programs that collect data related to HAI¿s and integration of the data across HHS. Includes recommendations. Charts and tables.
Download or read book Bennett Brachman s Hospital Infections written by William R. Jarvis and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 1339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over three decades, Bennett & Brachman’s Hospital Infections has been a respected and influential resource in the prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). Now in its Sixth Edition, the book continues to provide readers with the latest information in the field of healthcare epidemiology, infection control, patient safety, and the prevention and control of HAIs. Many of the current contributors are or were employed by or trained at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and have a thorough knowledge of healthcare epidemiology. Topics covered include HAI epidemiology; surveillance; control programs; antimicrobial stewardship;antimicrobial resistance; mechanisms of resistance; sterilization and disinfection; food-borne diseases; the role of the laboratory, intensive care unit, operating room, dialysis, and nursery settings; and specific hospital-acquired infections.
Download or read book Healthcare associated Infections written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health Care Associated Infections in Hospitals written by United States Government Account Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health-Care-Associated Infections in Hospitals: Leadership Needed from HHS to Prioritize Prevention Practices and Improve Data on These Infections
Download or read book Antibiotic Resistance AR written by Marcia Crosse and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infections that were once treatable have become more difficult to treat because of AR. AR is accelerated by inappropriate antibiotic use in people. Questions have been raised about whether agencies such as the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) have adequately assessed the effects of antibiotic use and disposal on resistance in humans. This report: (1) describes fed. efforts to quantify the amount of antibiotics produced; (2) evaluates HHS's monitoring of antibiotic use and efforts to promote appropriate use; (3) examines HHS's monitoring of AR infections; and (4) describes fed. efforts to monitor antibiotic disposal and antibiotics in the environ. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand report.
Download or read book Health Care Associated Infections in Hospitals written by United States Accounting Office (GAO) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-21 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health-Care-Associated Infections in Hospitals: Leadership Needed from HHS to Prioritize Prevention Practices and Improve Data on These Infections
Download or read book The Truth About Big Medicine written by Cheryl L. Brown and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Americans believe that their healthcare is second to none. Most patients, therefore, fail to appreciate the flaws and dangers present while receiving medical care. In fact, the American health care industry is one of the great tragedies of this country, which is now being brought to its knees by the medical industry run amuck. The Truth About Big Medicine: Righting the Wrongs for Better Health Care divulges secrets of the industry, which keep it focused on its own economic needs to the detriment of public health. The cost of American health care per person far exceeds other developed countries, yet it delivers life expectancies and infant mortalities that are shamefully ranked low among developed nations. Special interest groups and weak legislation created a “tapeworm” that continues to devour the American economy and shorten the lives of hundreds of thousands each year. Using true stories throughout, the authors illustrate that it is time for the public, students, educators, and legislators to clearly recognize medical deception and secrecy and to consider clear solutions on how they can achieve a safer health care system. A rich variety of authors with experience in revealing unsafe medical practices bring recommendations for changing health care delivery by taking an aspect of the health care system, identifying its shortcomings, and proposing ways to reduce harm plus correct the injustices. Included are discussions of imaging, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, hospital practices and procedures, and medical malpractice and negligence, among other topics. No consumer of health care should ignore the dangers; this book helps reveal them and suggests useful remedies. The authors maintain a website at http://truthaboutbigmedicine.com/
Download or read book Cleaning Up written by Dan Zuberi and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-20 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To cut costs and maximize profits, hospitals in the United States and many other countries are outsourcing such tasks as cleaning and food preparation to private contractors. In Cleaning Up, the first book to examine this transformation in the healthcare industry, Dan Zuberi looks at the consequences of outsourcing from two perspectives: its impact on patient safety and its role in increasing socioeconomic inequality. Drawing on years of field research in Vancouver, Canada as well as data from hospitals in the U.S. and Europe, he argues that outsourcing has been disastrous for the cleanliness of hospitals—leading to an increased risk of hospital-acquired infections, a leading cause of severe illness and death—as well as for the effective delivery of other hospital services and the workers themselves. Zuberi’s interviews with the low-wage workers who keep hospitals running uncover claims of exposure to near-constant risk of injury and illness. Many report serious concerns about the quality of the work due to understaffing, high turnover, poor training and experience, inadequate cleaning supplies, and on-the-job injuries. Zuberi also presents policy recommendations for improving patient safety by reducing the risk of hospital-acquired infection and ameliorating the work conditions and quality of life of hospital support workers. He makes the case that hospital outsourcing exemplifies the trend towards “low-road” service-sector jobs that threatens to undermine society’s social health, as well as the physical health and well-being of patients in health care settings globally.
Download or read book Health Care Associated Infections in Hospitals written by United States Accounting Office (GAO) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-21 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health-Care-Associated Infections In Hospitals: Continuing Leadership Needed from HHS to Prioritize Prevention Practices and Improve Data on These Infections
Download or read book Health Care Associated Infections written by Cynthia A. Bascetta and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health-care-associated infections (HAI) are a leading cause of death. Recent high-profile cases of HAIs in ambulatory surgical centers (ASC) due to lapses in recommended infection control practices may indicate a more widespread problem in ASCs, but the prevalence of such lapses is unknown. The Dept. of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and other entities collect data on HAIs, including process data on the use of recommended practices and outcome data on HAI incidence. CMS conducts standard surveys on about half of ASCs every 3 to 4 years, assessing compliance with its standard on infection control. This report examines the availability of data on HAIs in ASCs nationwide. Includes recommend. Illus.
Download or read book Promoting the Development of Antibiotics and Ensuring Judicious Use in Humans written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hospital acquired Infections written by Julia B. Wilcox and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), also known as health-care-associated infections, encompass almost all clinically evident infections that do not originate from a patient's original admitting diagnosis. Within hours after admission, a patient's flora begins to acquire characteristics of the surrounding bacterial pool. Most infections that become clinically evident after 48 hours of hospitalization are considered hospital-acquired. Infections that occur after the patient's discharge from the hospital can be considered to have a nosocomial origin if the organisms were acquired during the hospital stay. This new book present a set of reports detailing the depth of the problems as well as suggesting remedies.
Download or read book Department of Labor Health and Human Services Education and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2010 Part 5 March 25 2009 written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health Care Assoociated Infections written by Cynthia A. Bascetta and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health-care-associated infections (HAI) are a leading cause of death. Recent high-profile cases of HAIs in ambulatory surgical centers (ASC) due to lapses in recommended infection control practices may indicate a more widespread problem in ASCs, but the prevalence of such lapses is unknown. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and other entities collect data on HAIs, including process data on the use of recommended practices and outcome data on HAI incidence. CMS conducts standard surveys on about half of ASCs every 3 to 4 years, assessing compliance with its standard on infection control. This report examines the availability of data on HAIs in ASCs nationwide. Charts and tables.
Download or read book Patient Safety and Quality written by Ronda Hughes and published by Department of Health and Human Services. This book was released on 2008 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient car -- not only in the hospital or ambulatory treatment facility, but also of community-based care and the care performed by family members. Nurses need know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes. To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has prepared this comprehensive, 1,400-page, handbook for nurses on patient safety and quality -- Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. (AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043)." - online AHRQ blurb, http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/
